Report of the President. 13 



It will be seen from the foreg'oing statement that the largest 

 amount of instruction by Cornell University to students of agri- 

 culture in subjects outside the College of Agriculture (and other 

 State colleges) was in the year 1903-4, when it aggregated 1,669 

 hours. As a student in order to graduate must take thirty hours 

 a year, and is permitted to take thirty-six hours a year, on the basis 

 of thirty-three hours per year, 1,669 hours would represent almost 

 exactly the total instruction given to fifty students or half the instruc- 

 tion given to 100 students for one year. 



After consideration of these reports of the Treasurer and of the 

 Registrar at meetings held on October 2, 1906, and November 27, 

 1906, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Cornell 

 University appropriated for the support of the State College of 

 Agriculture $5,700 from the University treasury and $10,000 from 

 the Congressional Industrial Fund, and voted also that the receipts 

 from the University farms, plant, etc., and agricultural fees hitherto 

 turned into the University treasury, be credited direct to the State 

 College of Agriculture, and that the University assume the obliga- 

 tion of furnishing to students in Agriculture, free of charge, instruc- 

 tion in other Colleges of the University, if there be a demand there- 

 for, up to an aggregate of 1,669 hours. 



As has been already explained, the principal object of the New 

 York State College of Agriculture is to improve the agricultural 

 methods of the State ; to develop the agricultural resources of the 

 State in the production of crops of all kinds, in the rearing and 

 breeding of live stock, in the manufacture of dairy and other pro- 

 ducts, in determining better methods of handling and marketing 

 such products, and in other ways ; and to increase intelligence and 

 elevate the standards of living in the rural districts. But the law 

 organizing the College does not exclude investigation and research, 

 On the contrary the College is authorized " to make researches in the 

 physical, chemical, biological and other problems of agriculture, the 

 application of such investigations to the agriculture of New York, 

 and the publication of the results thereof." Nevertheless, it is 

 planned that the College shall devote itself, if not exclusively, at 

 least pre-eminently, to giving instruction to students who come to 

 Ithaca in the arts and sciences of agriculture and to the diffusion 

 of agricultural knowledge throughout the State. The work of in- 

 vestigation and research is, in the meantime, delegated to the Federal 

 Experiment Station. And men who engage in research are to do no 

 teaching whatever, their time and energy being devoted solely to the 



